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Elements of Biblical Exegesis: A Basic Guide for Students and Ministers (Third Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

World-renowned scholar Michael Gorman presents a straightforward approach to the complex task of biblical exegesis. This third edition of Gorman’s widely used and trusted textbook (over 60,000 copies sold) has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect developments in the academy and the classroom over the past decade. The new edition explains recent developments in theological interpretation...

Today there are two main approaches to biblical exegesis, which we will call the analytical approach and the engaged approach.10 An analytical approach is fundamentally a modern way of studying texts that seeks to understand them in terms of their historical development, their literary features, or both. This sort of approach is a product of the Enlightenment and its aftermath in the West. It does not require (nor does it necessarily rule out) an interest in the text
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